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  1. Empirical wonder
    historicizing the fantastic, 1660-1760
    Author: Capoferro, Riccardo
    Published: c2010
    Publisher:  Peter Lang, Bern

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783035100785
    RVK Categories: HK 1091
    Subjects: Fantasy fiction, English; English fiction; Supernatural in literature; Fantastische Literatur; Englisch; Empirismus; Das Übernatürliche
    Scope: 238 p.
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    Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-231) and index
  2. Empirical Wonder
    Historicizing the Fantastic, 1660-1760
    Author: Capoferro, Riccardo
    Published: 2011; ©2010
    Publisher:  Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Bern

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    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783035100785
    Other identifier:
    9783035100785
    RVK Categories: HK 1091
    Edition: 1st, New ed
    Subjects: Empirismus; Das Übernatürliche; Englisch; Fantastische Literatur
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (238 Seiten)
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    Online resource; title from title screen (viewed June 10, 2019)

    Eighteenth-century England did not only see the rise of the novel, but also the rise of genres of what we now call the fantastic, such as imaginary voyages and apparition narratives. Combining theoretical reflection and cultural analysis, the author of this book investigates the origins, and demonstrates the formal and historical identity of a great variety of texts, which have never been considered as part of the same family. The fantastic, he argues, is an intrinsically modern mode, which uses the devices of realistic representation to describe supernatural phenomena. Its origins can be found in the seventeenth century, when the rise of modern empiricism threatened the ontological and epistemological underpinnings of traditional religious culture. The author shows how a broad range of discursive formations - demonology, providential literature, teratology, and natural philosophy - attempted to reconcile world-views that were felt to be increasingly incompatible, and traces the development of a new kind of fiction that gradually replaced them and took over their work of reconciliation. Coalescing as an autonomous system of genres, free from the restrictions of modern science and at the same time self-consciously aesthetic, the fantastic emerged as an instrument both to affirm and to transcend the empirical vision
  3. Empirical wonder
    historicizing the fantastic, 1660-1760
    Author: Capoferro, Riccardo
    Published: ©2010
    Publisher:  Peter Lang, Bern

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783035100785; 3035100780; 3034303262; 9783034303262
    Subjects: Fantasy fiction, English / History and criticism; English fiction / 18th century / History and criticism; Supernatural in literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; English fiction / (OCoLC)fst00910817; Fantasy fiction, English / (OCoLC)fst00920756; Supernatural in literature / (OCoLC)fst01138966
    Scope: 1 online resource (238 pages :), illustrations
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-231) and index

    Historicizing the fantastic -- The natural, the supernatural, and the problem of mediation -- From empirical demonology to supernatural fiction -- The rise of imaginary voyages